Lois Howton

Aug. 11, 1921 - April 9, 2006

Aug. 11, 1921 - April 9, 2006

Lois Howton, 84, of 3139 North Old Highway 31, Rochester, Indiana, passed away at 1:17 p.m. Sunday, April 9, 2006, in the Woodlawn Hospital, Rochester, where she had been a patient since Saturday.

Lois was born the daughter of Dennis Franklin and Zora Etta Williams Burton in Henderson, Kentucky, on August 11, 1921. She had lived most of her life in the Argos and Fulton County area of Indiana.

On July 29, 1940, in Paducah, Kentucky, she took Colman M. "Coley" Howton to be her husband. They had enjoyed over 60 years of marriage and family together when he preceded her in death on November 26, 2000.

She was a homemaker and she had worked as an assistant manager for the former Alford's IGA Store in Argos for many years. She was an active member of the Argos United Methodist Church where she had served as president of the Women's Society and as the Sunday School superintendent for several years. While wintering with her husband in Florida, she had attended and served as the assistant secretary for the 1st United Methodist Church of Avon Park.

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Outside of her church, she had been active in the Women's Auxiliary of the James Lowell Corey American Legion Post 68 of Argos, where she had served as the unit president and district president, and had held almost every office on the local level at one time or another. She was a former member of the Argos Order of Eastern Star, and had served as the mother advisor for the Argos Chapter of the Rainbow Girls. She also had served as a den mother for the Argos Cub Scouts for many years as her children were growing up.

Lois was preceded in death by her parents; husband; two sons, Ronald Howton and Daniel Howton; a granddaughter, Carol Ann King; and by a grandson, Randy Howton.

A celebration of her life will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 13, in the Argos United Methodist Church, with Rev. Robert Vale officiating. Interment will be on Saturday at the Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson, Ky. Family and friends may visit in the Argos United Methodist Church from 4 to 8:30 p.m. today or one hour prior to her services in the church on Thursday.

Memorials may be made to the Argos United Methodist Church Memorial Fund. Envelopes will be available in the church or the funeral home. Electronic condolences may be sent to her family at goodfamily@rtcol.com.

Her services have been entrusted to the Good Family Funeral Home, 1220 W. 18th Street, Rochester, Indiana.